Mai 68

Cours vite, camarade! Le vieux monde est derrière toi! 

Actor Jean-Pierre Léaud with director François Truffaut and other people from the cinema industry and cinephiles, protesting at the gates of the Cinémathèque Française, after its director Langlois got fired (below). The "Langlois Affair" and those protests were recreated by Bertolucci on The Dreamers (2003), as explained in the video (above).

 Director Jean-Luc Godard filming the demonstration on the streets of Paris.

Bruno Barbey, with his camera around his neck. One of the most famous photographers of the riots.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, known as "Dany le Rouge", leader of the riots,

 with other student activists.

Truffaut, Léaud and others at the gates of the Cinémathèque Française, 

closed by the government after the firing of Langlois.

Directors Lelouch, Godard, Truffaut, Malle and Polanski at the Cannes Festival 

during May 68. They demanded to boycott the festival to support the protests.

The occupied Sorbonne during philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre's lecture.

The barricades.

 Student at Victor Hugo's statue in the Sorbonne in May 68.

The Sorbonne used as a dormitory.

Reopening of the Nanterre university.

Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible! 

Ph.: Bruno Barbey, and stills from The Dreamers (2003)

A Room with a View (1985)

“He’s the sort who can’t know anyone intimately, least of all a woman. He doesn’t know what a woman is. He wants you for a possession, something to look at, like a painting or an ivory box. Something to own and to display. He doesn’t want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn’t love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.” 

 “Don't you agree that, on one's first visit to Florence, one must have a room with a view?” 

A Room with a View directed by James Ivory and starring a young and lovely Helena Bonham Carter, and the handsome Julian Sands as the romantic and eccentric George. The cast is completed by great actors and actresses such as Daniel Day-Lewis, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott and Judi Dench. This is one of our favorite films because of its romantic-comedy story, the beautiful views of Florence, the Italian and English landscapes, and the wonderful soundtrack. All that contributes to make you feel like you really are living in the Edwardian era, in the early 1900's.